Random life update

[urbpan]

The house sparrow chatter outside makes it sound like it's a beautiful warm spring day. In fact we're getting our traditional March First snowstorm, first of two parts. Today it's light and fluffy but sticking. Tomorrow it's supposed to pile up to nearly a foot. I guess my Texan coworker will get her chance to go sledding after all

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[wirrrn]

:hugs:

btw- Zoo movie night- might I suggest the superintelligent ants flick PHASE IV? Just watched it for the first time last night- pretty decent, although way Seventies and it gets a few entomological facts wrong (spiders and millipedes are called "fellow insects") and the 'Queen Ant' is clearly a rather miffed Pompilid wasp in a weeny ant suit...

[urbpan]

I'll definitely have to check that one out!

The zoo staff has kind of depressing taste in movies, imo. I figured there'd be more sci fi and horror fans, but there is much more enthusiasm for "chick flicks." I suppose it's something of a compromise that our first planned movie night will be "Twilight."

[wirrrn]

I enjoyed TWILIGHT, mostly for RPattz *g*

What about THEM! EMPIRE OF THE ANTS or EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS?!

[urbpan]

Seriously, man, there's like five of us at the zoo that like bugs, out of over a hundred staff.

[vampyrusgirl]

You should see the silent movie one John did the first year I was at TF. It was awesome, if I may so brag about my husband! :)

[brush_rat]

Since mom died, I haven't felt like doing much either. Particularly with the blog stuff, but life in general. I assume it will pass.

There are so many movies you guys could be watching with zoos in them. Off the top of my head...

Fierce Creatures
Cat People (The Nastasia Kinski one)
Madagascar
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone (The dumbing down of that title for American audiences has always bugged me)
Twelve Monkeys
I am legend
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

Well, okay that's seven, but there's got to be more out there.

[elainetyger]

The Graduate
Madagascar

[urimancy]

You zoo sounds awesome.

[urbpan]

You mean because of the fun extracurriculars? It is pretty neat that way.

[urimancy]

Yes! Sounds like a fun community to be a part of.

[propaddict]

I often feel like a sheep in wolf clothing when I shoot at the range. Pretty sure I'm one of the only guys there who voted for the current POTUS, like.

The politics is ancillary. The shooting is what everyone's really there for.

Just be careful: it's addictive. And once you start buying the little lead throwers, they seem to multiply like rabbits in the safe.

[urbpan]

I really enjoyed it. I'd like to go back and try some longarms, since those are what are used in the zoo field, and have more legal applications. Pistols seem to be all about killing humans at short range, which is an activity for criminals and police only, imo. And I'm not in any hurry to get to a civilization where everyone is one or the other.

It seems like a pretty expensive hobby. A good gun costs as much as a good bicycle, which is a little more useful to me at the moment.

[propaddict]

Long guns are definitely where beginners should start, for all too many reasons to detail